2 Peter 2:7
And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the injustice and lewd conversation of the wicked.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et justum Lot oppressum a nefandorum injuria, ac luxuriosa conversatione eripuit :
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- καὶ δίκαιον Λὼτ καταπονούμενον ὑπὸ τῆς τῶν ἀθέσμων ἐν ἀσελγείᾳ ἀναστροφῆς ἐρρύσατο—
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory the Great Book XI, To Theoctista, Patrician
Consider, I pray you, where patience would be, if there were nothing to be endured. I suspect that there is no Abel without having a Cain for his brother. For if the good were without the bad, they could not be perfectly good, since they would not be purged: and the very society of the bad is the purgation of the good. There were three sons of Noe in the ark, one of whom was a derider of his father, who, though in himself he was blessed, still received a sentence of condemnation in his son. Abraham had two sons before he took Cethura to wife; and yet his carnal son persecuted the son of promise ( Genes. ix .). This the great teacher expounds, saying, As he who is after the flesh persecuted him that is after the Spirit, even so it is now ( Gal. iv. 29 ). Isaac had two sons; but one, who was spiritual, fled before the threats of his carnal brother. …